Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documents

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The Microsoft SQL Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are used by Microsoft SQL Server (namely Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008) to communicate with the 2007 Microsoft Office system and with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (namely Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0).

The documentation includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

Audience

The Microsoft SQL Server protocols documentation is intended for use in conjunction with publicly available standard specifications and network programming art. It assumes that the reader either is familiar with this material or has immediate access to it.

The technical documentation provides the following levels of audience support:

Implementer: Sufficient conceptual and reference information for a successful implementation of one or more protocol specifications for a given task or scenario.
Reviewer: A definitive resource for readers who want to evaluate or understand one or more protocols.

Specification	Description
[MS-BINXML]: SQL Server Binary XML Structure Specification	Specifies a binary format used to encode the text form of an XML document. Click here to view this version of the [MS-BINXML] PDF.
[MS-CEPM]: Microsoft Complex Event Processing Engine Manageability Protocol Specification	Specifies a Web service protocol that defines the communication protocol between a client application and a complex event processing (CEP) server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-CEPM] PDF.
[MS-DSDIFFGRAM]: SharePoint Web Services: DataSet DiffGram Structure Specification	Specifies the DataSetDiffGram Web service. This protocol supports the wire format of the DataSet as returned by Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Click here to view this version of the [MS-DSDIFFGRAM] PDF.
[MS-ODBCSTR]: ODBC Connection String Structure Specification	Specifies the format of the connection string used in Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). Click here to view this version of the [MS-ODBCSTR] PDF.
[MS-OLEDBSTR]: OLEDB Connection String Structure Specification	Specifies the format of the connection string used in OLEDB. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OLEDBSTR] PDF.
[MS-RDL]: Report Definition Language File Format Structure Specification	Specifies the file format for Microsoft SQL Server Report Definition Language (RDL), a file type that is used to represent the metadata for defining a report. Click here to view this version of the [MS-RDL] PDF.
[MS-RGDI]: Remote GDI+ (RGDI) Binary Stream Format Structure Specification	Specifies the Remote GDI+ (RGDI) Binary Stream Format, which is a binary format that is produced by SQL Server Reporting Services when communicating with viewer controls to offload some of the rendering work from the server to the client viewer control. Click here to view this version of the [MS-RGDI] PDF.
[MS-RPL]: Report Page Layout (RPL) Binary Stream Format Structure Specification	Specifies the Report Page Layout (RPL) stream format, an internal binary format that is used by SQL Server Reporting Services when communicating with viewer controls to offload some of the rendering work from the server to the client viewer control. Click here to view this version of the [MS-RPL] PDF.
[MS-RSWSRE2005]: Report Server Web Service Specification for Report Execution: ReportExecution2005	Specifies the Report Server Web Service Specification for Report Execution. This protocol specifies an API protocol that is provided by the ReportExecution2005 Web service. Click here to view this version of the [MS-RSWSRE2005] PDF.
[MS-RSWSRM2010]: Report Server Web Service Specification for Report Management: ReportService2010	Specifies an API protocol that is provided by the ReportService2010 Web service for managing objects and settings on a report server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-RSWSRM2010] PDF.
[MS-RSWSRMNM2005]: Report Server Web Service Specification for Report Management Native Mode: ReportService2005	Specifies the Report Server Web Service Specification for Report Management Native Mode, which provides methods for managing objects and settings on a SQL Server report server that is configured for native mode. Click here to view this version of the [MS-RSWSRMNM2005] PDF.
[MS-RSWSRMSM2006]: Report Server Web Service Specification for Report Management for SharePoint Mode: ReportService2006	Specifies the Report Server Web Service Specification for Report Management for SharePoint Mode, which provides methods for managing objects and settings on a SQL Server report server that is configured for SharePoint integrated mode. Click here to view this version of the [MS-RSWSRMSM2006] PDF.
[MS-RSWSSFA]: Report Server Web Service Specification for SharePoint Forms Authentication: ReportServiceAuthentication	Specifies an API protocol that is provided by the ReportServiceAuthentication Web service for authenticating users against a report server when the SharePoint Web application is configured for Forms Authentication. Click here to view this version of the [MS-RSWSSFA] PDF.
[MS-SSAS]: SQL Server Analysis Services Protocol Specifications	Specifies the SQL Server Analysis Services Protocol Specification, which provides methods for a client to communicate with and to perform operations on an analysis server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SSAS] PDF.
[MS-SSAS8]: SQL Server Analysis Services Version 8.0 Protocol Specification	Specifies a mechanism for a client to communicate with, and perform operations on, an online analytical processing (OLAP) server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SSAS8] PDF.
[MS-SSCLRT]: Microsoft SQL Server CLR Types Serialization Formats Specification	Specifies the binary format of the GEOGRAPHY, GEOMETRY, HIERARCHYID, and CLR user-defined type (UDT) structures that are managed by SQL Server 2008 R2. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SSCLRT] PDF.
[MS-SSDPWP]: Database Publishing Wizard Protocol Specification	Specifies the Database Publishing Wizard Protocol Specification, which specifies a format that allows for communication with a server instance that uses open, industry-standard protocols. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SSDPWP] PDF.
[MS-SSMDSWS]: Master Data Services Web Service Structure Specification	Specifies the Master Data Services (MDS) Web service, a SOAP protocol for all functions within Master Data Services. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SSMDSWS] PDF.
[MS-SSNWS]: Native Web Services Protocol Specification	Specifies the Native Web Services Protocol Specification. This protocol specifies how to leverage the standard SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 protocols to provide specific communication logic format and message format that enables ad-hoc T-SQL query requests and subsequent query result responses. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SSNWS] PDF.
[MS-SSTDS]: Tabular Data Stream Protocol Version 4.2	Specifies the Tabular Data Stream Version 4.2 Protocol. This protocol specifies the Microsoft Tabular Data Stream Version 4.2 (TDS 4.2), which is an application layer request/response protocol that facilitates interaction with a database. This protocol is superseded by [MS-TDS]. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SSTDS] PDF.
[MS-XSSK]: XML Serialization of Synchronization Knowledge Specification	Specifies the structure of knowledge XML serialization. Click here to view this version of the [MS-XSSK] PDF.